Allison Lange, Wentworth Institute Comment: Susan Ware, Schlesinger Library and American National Biography
Suffragists coordinated a visual campaign to promote their cause and counter caricatures that depicted them as masculine. In the 1880s, they increased their efforts to establish a positive public image of their movement. Suffrage leaders—especially Susan B. Anthony...
Generations of Struggle: St. Louis from Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter
A panel discussion featuring... Percy Green, CORE/ACTION Robin D. G. Kelley, University of California at Los Angeles George Lipsitz, University of California at Santa Barbara...
Faces, Beauty, and Brains: Physiognomy and Female Education in Post-Revolutionary America
Rachel Walker, University of MarylandComment: Robert A. Gross, University of Connecticut
This project explores how early republican Americans used physiognomy—the “science” of interpreting facial features—to distinguish between the minds of men and women. The work examines diaries of several “female physiognomists” who focused on evaluating the intellectual capacities of...
Mark Herlihy, Endicott CollegeComment: Jeff Melnick, University of Massachusetts—Boston
This paper traces the rise and enduring presence of the notorious African Dodger game, in which patrons paid a nickel for a chance to throw a ball at the head of an African American male. The game’s popularity suggests...
In this Colloquium, Postdoctoral Fellow Onur Ozgode (Ph.D. in Sociology, Columbia University) will be presenting his paper, “The Emergence of Systemic Risk”. To explain how the Federal Reserve came to govern the financial system against the most fundamental principle of political liberalism—private risk-private reward, the paper traces the construction of systemic risk in the Fed as a governmental problem in the 1970s. Lunch will be provided. RSVP required. Click link below for more information.
